Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words, but with no success. Then I approached a woman drawing water from the well, but here intuition must have given different information from what I asked for, because she called what I think was her husband, and not even my American pasport seemed to quiet his fury...
NLRB's non-Smith and chairman is Joseph Warren Madden, a quiet, friendly, good-humored scholar, greying at 47, who has been law professor at Cornell, Stanford, Chicago, Oklahoma, Ohio State, West Virginia and Pittsburgh universities. No recluse, he served in Pittsburgh on an NRA regional labor board, a special committee to arbitrate a streetcar strike, a Governor's commission on special policing in industry, a federation of social agencies, a housing association. For fun he leads an orchestra composed of his three sons and two daughters, plays tennis with his sons and baseball with the NLRB employes...
...these exercises should be taken at dawn and sunset, on an empty stomach, on a firm but soft seat, in a quiet neighborhood, naked except for a loin cloth...
Love from a Stranger (Trafalgar). Adapted from a play by Frank Vosper (who last month disappeared in mid-ocean), this film investigates the prelude to a quiet murder in a British country house. The afternoon she advertises her flat for rent because she has just won first prize in a Paris lottery, Carol Howard (Ann Harding) receives a prospective tenant in the person of Gerald Lovell (Basil Rathbone), whose worldly manners soon so charm her that she marries him. After a gay honeymoon in Paris, they settle down together in a Kentish cottage, paid for with funds which Gerald...
...which Erich Maria Remarque saw blasted away on the Western Front the only good thing that escaped destruction was comradeship. Behind the shattered lives, in a defeated Germany where the old values tumbled overnight, that value still stood firm. This was the thesis of his first two books. All Quiet on the Western Front and The Road Back; it remains the thesis of his third. To those who have forgotten the War or to those who never knew it, Remarque's preoccupation with this one theme may seem morbid or adolescent. It is not the brotherhood of man that...